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Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.
Shortest path found
Serena Williams
reaches
Joanna Phang
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →5 meetings50June 26, 2000 — January 13, 2003View Serena Williams × Tamarine Tanasugarn →02 BridgeOpen career →Tamarine Tanasugarn
1 meeting10April 20, 1995View Tamarine Tanasugarn × Tatiana Babina →03 BridgeOpen career →Tatiana Babina
1 meeting10February 23, 1999View Tatiana Babina × Joanna Phang →04 DestinationOpen career →Joanna Phang
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeIroda Tulyaganova
- BridgeArchana Reddy
- DestinationJoanna Phang
How we calculate it
A search from both sides of history.
The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.
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